I’m glad I have finally seen someone else who appreciates windows 8 (or at least is willing to admit it). People just lose their shit when there are any changes to the start menu, but the best start menu is to not have one at all.

Windows 8 has way better hotkeys (limit seaeching to files, programs, or applications) compared to the unified search in newer versions.

You might like ERPNext, Akaunting, or odoo as mentioned by another user

I haven’t looked into specific apps, but I have been wanting to try various trained models and figured just self hosting jupyterhub and getting models from hugging face would be a quick and flexible way to do it

Mainly just less to install when I inevitably wipe my PC again

It sounds like you may like NixOS if you haven’t tried it